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From: forsyth@cal... forsyth@cal...
Subject: [9fans] Brian Kernighan?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:16:19 GMT

>>looking to match full mail names against potential spelling
>>errors.  The dictionary is consequently not very large, and the

although the spdist technique might be good enough in practice,
there are other techniques for matching names; i'd try
searching the online bibliographic databases for references.
some of them aren't much more effort to implement.